Where to start...with the best news I suppose...my truck sold yesterday!! WOOHOO! I couldn't be happier! Now I can begin to look at cars here and bikes. And signup for the diving course...I have another new flatmate, a med student from Austria - Hansi (sp?), who just spent 4 weeks in Australia and dived the Great Barrier Reef. After our conversation last night about all his diving experiences I am soo anxious to get going on the diving...the first available course is in December and I'll be signing up today!
I had my first field day yesterday or maybe I should say field hour. It was a rare beautiful and sunny day! Clement was already going to collect fish, snails and amphipods for his research and I need the same fish species - a little minnow-like fish called a bully. The lake is about a 1/2 hour away, we put on waders, walk out a few feet into the lake, run a net along the bottom and scoop up the bullies into a bucket. Only takes a few minutes to get a good 60 or so fish. Along with Clement collecting his other organisms, we were there maybe an hour. Quite different than collecting at Lake Onalaska with the 3 hour drive one way and 6 hours on the lake. So now I have some lab work to do instead of just spending the entire day, every day, reading and writing at my desk. At this point I'm not collecting any data, I just need to determine which species of parasites (metacercariae) are in these fish and how to correctly ID them. I'm now on the lab website, so click on the Parasite Lab Website link and you can read about my research.
I've also added a link to a time zone map that I've customized. The my time is my Dunedin time. You can move the cursor over the different time zones and the time will flash at the top. I've labeled both Minneapolis and Dunedin...if you click on the labels it will bring you to the Wikipedia page for those cities. If you click on the title Kristin in NZ it will bring you back to my blog. Pretty cool!
I've started looking at my options for where I'll be living come January. I've got a few places to go see and people to meet...one could be close to the beach! We shall see...
I'm also anticipating receiving a few packages from MN this week. I'm anxiously checking the mail!
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Kristin, your pictures of the wildlife tour are fantastic. You must have a good camera. I'm especially fond of penguins and sheep - so fun to see them in the same location! The scenery there is breathtaking too.
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